Anyone out there heard about the new, supposedly FREE, broadband service that's starting in October. I'm pretty cynical myself and don't believe you get "owt for nowt" so I have tried to find the catch but can't. I don't know if a url link will show up on this message but if it does have a look and let me know what the catch is coz it's baffling me - the only thing I can see is that it's a new kind of compression software and it speeds up a normal phone line so long as you have a fast enough modem. It would be handy for downloading high res imag files.
http://www.freespeed.co.uk

i do believe it works, and it's free!! a techy chum said so, but he also said there is alot of company's pushing this service!! i'm not convinced myself....you don't get anything for free in this life!!

Hi Nik (& Mr Muckle)
I do agree with you that you get nothing for free in this world, however I have signed up for this service because I can control spam, if and when it starts coming in. And there is no section of the sign-up that asks for credit card, bank, or any other information that could be used in a fraudulent way. I think of it a bit like ITV, CH4 and CH5, it's free, in theory at least, but you do have to put up with spam tv, (adverts), in order to get it.
If the service is rubbish I will just stop using it and go back to paying for my broadband.
It doesn't start until October anyway, so I will let you know if I have been mugged or not before November.

By the way, Mr Muckle, have you signed up for it?
Col

ps - it's only free to the first 80 million (worldwide) apparently - after that it's £2.99 per month for the service - sounds cosher to me.

I may be mistaken, but I think they make their money by forwarding to others your surfing patterns. That is all your uploads and downloads are passed through their central server - there fore they have automatic access to all your internet habits. Scary.

Hi John
I use Spy Sweeper to wipe my pc of all the spyware that lands on my hard drive but it's pretty impossible to keep out all the invaders.
However, I can't see how having your surfing habits tracked can affect you in any way other than directing particular advertisements towards you - I think if TV did the same thing, whereby you only see ads for things you are actually interested in it would be an improvement.
But I do see SPAM and POP-UPS as a pain in the **** all the same. I went onto the link ( http://www.freespeed.co.uk ) registered and, apart from my registration confirmation, I haven't had any problems with it and can't see any catches at all........yet.
Col